These changes will add $1.00 per bottle to the variable cost of sales. Calculate the new break even given the increase in variable costs. After charging $1.00 more per bottle, the company would have to sell 1,600 bottles per day which would be 20% sales loss. 3. To reposition its water as a premium product, Healthy Spring will require an increase in its advertising and promotion budget of $900 daily.
I don't want to see us shift any more production to Shuzworld H or F. I have two production mix problems I need your help with." "I just looked at the schedule for next month's production of Kidshuz shoes and sneakers. We're told the forecasted demand requires us to produce at least 25 batches of Kidshuz shoes and at least 10 batches of Kidshuz sneakers this month." Handel looks down, scanning some papers in his hand. "Based on my latest figures, the shoes cost me $2,000 per batch to produce and the sneakers cost $1,500 per batch to produce."
Assignment #1 Economics and Ethical Issues Mrs. Acres Homemade Pies In relationship between supply and demand for Mrs. Acres Homemade Pies, according to the growth of production, consumers are willing to buy Shelly pies at $4.50 each with a production of 8000 pies per month with a profit of $12,000. In order to stay at a $12,000 monthly profit, if Shelly decide to raise her price to $9.50 per pie; the impact will decrease the demand for her pies and her production would only have to be 2000 pies per month. The equilibrium price for Shelly pies is $6.00 per pie with a production of 4000 pies a month.
At any one time you have a team of 15 shop assistants with a need for 6 per day. Due to the nature of the work you have an average staff turnover of 1 staff position per month. At a recent senior management meeting the business strategic plan was developed from which you now to develop a performance plan for your sales team. You also need to remember the ongoing team requirements as well as those new requirements brought about the strategic plan. In essence, the strategic plan states that, over the next 12 months, ‘Yummy in your Tummy Lollies’ is aiming to: Increase turnover by 30% by: * Introducing 20 new products including a range of 6 ‘healthy lollies’ options Build market loyalty by specifically targeting ‘tweens’ as customers by: * Designing new packaging specifically designed to have greater marketing appeal to the 7-12 age demographic.
(John A. Lawrence and Jr. Barry A. Pasternack, 2002) 3. The company can not stop producing Super according to the market demand as it might be available to everybody. Also it wants to use the 8-hour shift per day while the spreadsheet indicates that there will be about 5 hours and a half of unused time because linear programming does not take into consideration the time. (John A. Lawrence and Jr. Barry A. Pasternack, 2002) Question 3 Let X1 = Number of SUPER model produced during 8 hour shift. X2 = Number of EXCELLENT model produced during 8 hour shift.
The Clean Clothes Laundry Corner Shawn Morris MG585 - Managerial Decisions September 20, 2013 Dr. John Theodore The Clean Clothes Laundry Corner (A) What is Molly’s current monthly volume? Molly’s fixed costs are $1,700 per month, and her variable costs are $0.25 per item, in which Molly is charging $1.10 per clothing item. Molly’s current monthly volume is 2,000 items. The answer was derived by using the following equation: $1,700 ÷ (1.1 – $0.25) = 2000 (B) If Molly purchases the new equipment, how many additional items will she have to dry-clean each month to break even? Using information given in question C, the $16,200 in new machinery will be divided up over 36 months.
Next is the number of pumps one employee can produce in one month. Which is, 771/25 (number of pumps for one employee a month, the company would need a total of 30.8 workers, or 31 (rounding up). After this information is gathered, these are the possible results: • We need to hire 11 more employees (there are now 20, and we need 31) • In the case reading, it is shown that there are up front cost of $1100 this is found the $100.00 hiring cost, multiplied by the 11 new employees. • Monthly production ----- 775 (31 workers x 25 pumps per worker) • The end of month inventory will be figured as 1 will be 225 >>>> this is the production of 775 (+) existing inventory of 50 = 825, then (-) the production of 600. Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 Demand 600 750 1000 850 750 700 Production 775 775 775 775 775
Wanda’s Widget Company manufactures widgets. It costs Wanda $1,000 per month for her fixed costs, plus $10 to produce each widget. If Wanda produces w widgets each month, what is the average cost per widget? a) b) c)
It is very obvious in this show because they seem to always solve the case the same day as they found about it or a few days pass throughout the episode. In our reality there is no chance any of the cases that have appeared on the show can be solved as quick as they make it seem on TV. The majority of the cases can actually take up to several years until the sentencing. The whole process in the science lab is really slow and would make a really boring show if they showed every single machine running its full course instead of just 2 seconds of the process. Fingerprinting itself takes up two weeks to go through and even after they get put into the system it takes hours to run it through every databases.
In conclusion she was required to both apply for public assistance and work of minimum 300 dollars a week. With her public assistance, child support and wages/tips she can make an income of 3170 a month. She currently would have to work a minimum of 40 hrs for minimum wage at 7.50 dollars and hour not including tips. By going to work she would need to pay off baby sitter and daycare for her children. Her rent was at a reasonable 900 plus 100 on gas/electricity.